In the spirit of building out this community, I’m creating a playlist of the songs released in a past few months that I found most compelling.

Note that not all of these are pop punk, but the genre is relatively nebulous anyway. Also note that while I have a very diverse musical palette, my strong preference is for music with great lyricism.

Let me know your thoughts! Tracklist:

1. What Hurts the Most - Trophy Eyes
2. Clean-Up Crew - Spanish Love Songs
3. Outlook - The Front Bottoms
4. Gans Media Retro Games - Hot Mulligan
5. JOBBO - WSTR
6. LIKED U BETTER - Jeff Rosenstock
7. We Didn’t Start the Fire (Re-Imagined) - Fall Out Boy
8. Fail You - Movements
9. GODDAMNITALL - The Wonder Years
10. Sean - Trophy Eyes
11. NYE - Local Natives
12. Cast Iron Skillet - Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit